Publisher's Synopsis
"What must we do for the Earth again to be our home? Radio Free Olympia unites a captivating circle of visionaries, folktale characters, and historical figures who struggle to return to their old-growth existence on Washington's wild Olympic Peninsula. In this magically realistic novel, cultural fiction writer Jeffrey Dunn weaves the threads of many voices into a complex ecological tapestry. Follow the foundling Petr into the mountain rainforest as he broadcasts forgotten voices from his pirate radio transmitter. Move in with Baie as she opens Wildsisters, a cranberry-infused roadhouse home for lost women. A tongue is stolen. An infant is kidnapped. And justice, not just for the characters but also for the flora, the fauna, and the terrain itself, must be served. Marrying prose and poetry, fiction and history, the hard-boiled and the transcendent, Radio Free Olympia takes us out of our current planetary discord and brings us back into s
